Eric Zolov

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My research and teaching interests focus on the interplay between culture, politics, and international relations in twentieth-century Latin America, with a particular emphasis on the Cold War period, as encompassed by the phrase "Global Sixties." My research is highly interdisciplinary: I seek to make connections between ideological articulations, consumptive practices, and broadly defined notions of power. My first book, Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (University of California Press, 1999), revealed the ways in which transnational countercultural practices became intermeshed with Mexican middle-class youth protest in the 1960s, giving rise to new forms of nationalist expression. In my second monograph, The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (Duke University Press, 2020), I explore the implications of Mexico's efforts to fashion itself as a Cold War interlocutor. In fall of 2019 I was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile. With Terri Gordon-Zolov, we published The Walls of Santiago: Social Revolution and Political Graphics in Contemporary Chile (Berghahn, 2022), a book which closely examines the significance of the 2019 social uprising in Chile viewed through the lens of protest street graphics. My current book project, "The Bossa Nova Moment: Harmonizing Pan-Americanism in the Era of the Cuban Revolution" explores the sonic and geopolitical implications of bossa nova during the long 1960s.

Select Works:

"The Walls of Chile Speak of a Suppressed Rage," The Nation. 

"Interview with Camilo Trumper: The Walls of Santiago," Brooklyn Rail. 

The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (Duke University Press, 2020). 

"Introduction: Latin America in the Global Sixties," The Americas 70, no. 3, special issue (Jan. 2014). 

"Integrating Mexico into the Global Sixties," in Mexico Beyond 1968 (The University of Arizona Press, 2018).